Articles | Volume 7, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-7-119-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-7-119-2013
Research article
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28 Jan 2013
Research article |  | 28 Jan 2013

Calving on tidewater glaciers amplified by submarine frontal melting

M. O'Leary and P. Christoffersen

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